Thinkfinity Lesson Plans

Title: A Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?
Description:
This EDSITEment lesson introduces students to the epic poem form and to its roots in the oral tradition. Students learn about the epic hero cycle and learn how to recognize its pattern of events and elements--even in surprisingly contemporary places. Students are also introduced to the patterns embedded in these stories that have helped generations of storytellers remember such long, expansive poems.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 6: Trace the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire, including key geographic, political, and economic elements.

Subject: Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: A Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?Description: This EDSITEment lesson introduces students to the epic poem form and to its roots in the oral tradition. Students learn about the epic hero cycle and learn how to recognize its pattern of events and elements--even in surprisingly contemporary places. Students are also introduced to the patterns embedded in these stories that have helped generations of storytellers remember such long, expansive poems.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 6,7,8

Title: EDSITEment Websites
Description:
This page from EDSITEment provides links to top humanities sites on the Web. All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is the product of a partnership forged among the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, WorldCom Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a member of the MarcoPolo consortium.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 17: Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Subject: Arts,Foreign Languages,Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: EDSITEment WebsitesDescription: This page from EDSITEment provides links to top humanities sites on the Web. All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is the product of a partnership forged among the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, WorldCom Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a member of the MarcoPolo consortium.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
Description:
This page from EDSITEment features resources relating to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and presents information about Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account of the eruption and the subsequent burial of Pompeii. Learn more about the eruption and Pompeii by visiting the EDSITEment lesson plans and EDSITEment-reviewed Web sites referenced on this page.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 7: Describe the widespread impact of the Roman Empire.

Subject: Social StudiesTitle: Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. VesuviusDescription: This page from EDSITEment features resources relating to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and presents information about Pliny the Younger's eyewitness account of the eruption and the subsequent burial of Pompeii. Learn more about the eruption and Pompeii by visiting the EDSITEment lesson plans and EDSITEment-reviewed Web sites referenced on this page.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: EDSITEment
Description:
The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Web site offers the best of the humanities on the Web. The site includes subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 17: Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies,ArtsTitle: EDSITEmentDescription: The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Web site offers the best of the humanities on the Web. The site includes subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: The Quest for Gold
Description:
In this Xpeditions student activity, students discover the value of gold, which has been important to trading throughout time. Students use an interactive map and make trade decisions as they take on the role of a Roman trader following the Silk Road en route to China.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 6: Trace the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire, including key geographic, political, and economic elements.

Subject: Science - Geology - Science - Physical Sciences - Social Studies - Economics - Social Studies - GeographyTitle: The Quest for GoldDescription: In this Xpeditions student activity, students discover the value of gold, which has been important to trading throughout time. Students use an interactive map and make trade decisions as they take on the role of a Roman trader following the Silk Road en route to China.Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic EducationGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Web Resources

Interactives/Games

Title: When In Time
Description:
WheninTime is a web application that enables users to create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice.
(Website's description)
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 14: Describe key aspects of pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas including the Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, and North American tribes.

When In Timehttp://whenintime.co...
WheninTime is a web application that enables users to create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice.
(Website's description)

Learning Activities

Title: When In Time
Description:
WheninTime is a web application that enables users to create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice.
(Website's description)
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 14: Describe key aspects of pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas including the Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, and North American tribes.

When In Timehttp://whenintime.co...
WheninTime is a web application that enables users to create, view, explore and contribute to interactive digital timelines on the topic of their choice.
(Website's description)

Thinkfinity Informational Materials

Title: Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey Online
Description:
This resource, part of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Web site, is an online journey to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th-20th-century sub-Saharan Africa. Included are museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. There are online galleries, puzzles, games, and worksheets. This resource is referenced in the EDSITEment lesson '' Unicorns, Dragons and Other Magical Creatures.''
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 14: Describe key aspects of pre-Columbian cultures in the Americas including the Olmecs, Mayas, Aztecs, Incas, and North American tribes.

Subject: Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Michael C. Carlos Museum: Odyssey OnlineDescription: This resource, part of the Michael C. Carlos Museum Web site, is an online journey to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th-20th-century sub-Saharan Africa. Included are museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. There are online galleries, puzzles, games, and worksheets. This resource is referenced in the EDSITEment lesson '' Unicorns, Dragons and Other Magical Creatures.''Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
Description:
Demos is a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. The aim is to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves. The earliest work on Demos was supported by grants from Furman University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 6: Trace the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire, including key geographic, political, and economic elements.

Subject: Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Demos: Classical Athenian DemocracyDescription: Demos is a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. The aim is to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves. The earliest work on Demos was supported by grants from Furman University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 6,7,8

Title: EDSITEment Websites
Description:
This page from EDSITEment provides links to top humanities sites on the Web. All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is the product of a partnership forged among the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, WorldCom Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a member of the MarcoPolo consortium.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 17: Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Subject: Arts,Foreign Languages,Language Arts,Social StudiesTitle: EDSITEment WebsitesDescription: This page from EDSITEment provides links to top humanities sites on the Web. All sites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and likely impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is the product of a partnership forged among the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, WorldCom Foundation and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a member of the MarcoPolo consortium.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
Description:
This EDSITEment-reviewed Web site, from the Newberry Library, provides historically significant map documents for K-12 teachers and their students. Illustrating the geographical dimensions of American history, the maps are accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history and geography curricula.
Standard(s): [SS2010] US11 (11) 16: Describe significant foreign and domestic issues of presidential administrations from Richard M. Nixon to the present. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.g., A.1.h., A.1.i., A.1.k.]

Subject: Social StudiesTitle: Historic Maps in K-12 ClassroomsDescription: This EDSITEment-reviewed Web site, from the Newberry Library, provides historically significant map documents for K-12 teachers and their students. Illustrating the geographical dimensions of American history, the maps are accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history and geography curricula.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: Pompeii Forum Project
Description:
This site, from the University of Virginia, provides archeological resources for the study of Roman civilization. It is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologically based and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 6: Trace the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire, including key geographic, political, and economic elements.

Subject: Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Pompeii Forum ProjectDescription: This site, from the University of Virginia, provides archeological resources for the study of Roman civilization. It is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologically based and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: 6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: EDSITEment
Description:
The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Web site offers the best of the humanities on the Web. The site includes subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 17: Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies,ArtsTitle: EDSITEmentDescription: The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Web site offers the best of the humanities on the Web. The site includes subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Subject: Arts,Social StudiesTitle: Digital Roman ForumDescription: A virtual model of the Roman Forum as it would have appeared in 400 C.E.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: C1,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Thinkfinity Interactive Games

Title: UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Description:
Satellite Image Gallery.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 17: Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Thinkfinity Learning Activities

Title: EDSITEment
Description:
The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Web site offers the best of the humanities on the Web. The site includes subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 17: Explain how events and conditions fostered political and economic changes in the late Middle Ages and led to the origins of the Renaissance.

Subject: Language Arts,Social Studies,ArtsTitle: EDSITEmentDescription: The National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Web site offers the best of the humanities on the Web. The site includes subject-based access to top humanities sites, EDSITEment lesson plans and at-home activities, and additional learning activities.Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEmentGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12

Title: The Quest for Gold
Description:
In this Xpeditions student activity, students discover the value of gold, which has been important to trading throughout time. Students use an interactive map and make trade decisions as they take on the role of a Roman trader following the Silk Road en route to China.
Standard(s): [SS2010] WH8 (8) 6: Trace the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire, including key geographic, political, and economic elements.

Subject: Science - Geology - Science - Physical Sciences - Social Studies - Economics - Social Studies - GeographyTitle: The Quest for GoldDescription: In this Xpeditions student activity, students discover the value of gold, which has been important to trading throughout time. Students use an interactive map and make trade decisions as they take on the role of a Roman trader following the Silk Road en route to China.Thinkfinity Partner: National Geographic EducationGrade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12